IMPORTANT WARNING: Hydroxyurea can cause a severe decrease in the number of blood cells in your bone marrow. This may cause certain symptoms and may increase the risk that you will develop a serious infection or bleeding.
Stage IV colon cancer commonly spreads to the liver or the lungs. Some patients who have cancer that has spread to a single area are candidates for surgery to remove the metastases. Treatment of the liver: When itâs possible to completely surgically remove all liver metastases, surgery is the preferred treatment.
Treatment for sigmoid colon cancer is resection of the sigmoid colon, with the descending colon anastomosed to the upper rectum. Rectal cancer. The type of resection for rectal cancer depends on the exact location of the cancer.